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4 Dead In Downtown St. Louis Shooting

Two men and two women were shot dead in downtown St. Louis in an apparent murder-suicide inside a building along Cherokee Street about 1:40 p.m. today, a police source said.

The shooter is among the four dead, police say. Officers recovered a gun.

Shots were fired at a home health-care business inside the Cherokee Place Business Incubator at 2715 Cherokee Street, police say. Capt. Michael Sack said surveillance video showed the shooter opened fire after having a brief argument with people inside the business.

A former police officer—now an elected official with the Missouri House of Representatives—wants to force any city with a population of 5,000 or fewer inhabitants, with an area of less than two square miles, to disband its police department and contract for law enforcement services with either the county police department or a larger neighboring city.